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US metal-tariffs showdown at WTO to shake world trade order

Bloomberg Move over Russia, Ukraine and Saudi Arabia. The US looks set to join the group of countries embroiled in disputes at the World Trade Organization involving curbs imposed on national-security grounds. China said it would complain to the WTO about US President Donald Trump’s import tariffs on steel and aluminum after failing to win an exclusion, which Washington gave ...

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Trump tightens screws on Putin but says he wants to get along

Bloomberg President Donald Trump is poised to take his most aggressive actions yet against Russia on Monday, when he’s likely to announce the expulsion of dozens of diplomats in response to the nerve-gas attack on a former Russian spy living in the UK. The move, all but certain to provoke retaliation by President Vladimir Putin’s government, comes as Trump has ...

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Ex-Catalan president Carles Puigdemont detained in Germany

Bloomberg Police detained former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont as he crossed into Germany from Denmark by car, bringing his eventual return to Spain to face trial a step nearer. Puigdemont was attempting to return to Belgium after a visit to Finland, his lawyer Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas said by phone on Sunday. A spokesman for the police in Germany’s northern state of ...

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